Great story. That’s totally me in the SL600. Completely paranoid. Especially after the thermostat sticking and the car getting hot. And the$500E300 too. Every old car!
--R Sent from iPhone > On Feb 8, 2019, at 9:14 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > A funny story: > > Today I drove the 220SEb to work and then on to my headliner guy's shop so he > could survey it in anticipation of doing the headliner and related items > early next month. It's a roughly 20 mile drive one way to work, half on > surface streets and the other half on a reversible toll road with limited > access/highway speeds (65 mph.) It's a combination of the two over to the > headliner shop of about 10 miles, making the return back to the house much > the same of about 30 miles for a total of about 60 miles round trip. > > We've all been in my shoes - a relatively new (to you) unproven car, taking > it out on the road, listening to every noise, vibration, hum, whatever, > riding on the edge just waiting for something (bad) to happen. You hear > something and start to freak out.... > > Drive to work - uneventful, maybe even fun. The toll road is a reversible > with three lanes, no access for roughly 11 miles. Very nice road surface, new > and smooth as glass. The car ran flawlessly, in fact, it found a sweet spot > in the upper 60s that made it sound great and was really tracking and > handling quite nicely, considering that I am in serious need of new front > springs. Cool. Got to work without an issue. Whew! > > Drive to headliner shop - interstate and city streets, busy but the car did > well again. Not a problem. > > Drive home, mostly interstate except for the last 10 miles or so, which is > surface streets. Again, ran well, no problems. Even fired up the FrigiKing > since it was nearly 80 and got some ice cubes running - well, plenty of cold > air. About a mile from home I was turning through an intersection and it > sounded like I ran over something small in the road. Hmm. No problem, car was > running fine. Probably a big rock or some piece of junk I didn't see. > > Pull into the garage. Need to straighten out the car a bit, so I put it in > reverse. It continues to creep forward. Hmm. Put it in neutral. Creeps > forward. OK, I'll just leave it here and I'll park the wife's SL500 so she > doesn't bang the door into my car, since it was encroaching into her space a > little. > > Get down on my hands and knees and take a look under the car. Yup. > Transmission linkage bushing failed. Got a couple on their way from the MB > warehouse in Jacksonville. I totally trust this car now. > > Dan > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
